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S/lab will have an informal coffee hour for this week’s meeting at 8:00 am on Tuesday, 1/26, at this Zoom link. Anyone is welcome for some causal fun talking!

R/lab will have their second meeting at 9:00 am on Friday, 1/29, at this Zoom link. They will discuss The featural life of nominals, a recent paper co-authored by Ivy Sichel and Maziar Toosarvandani.

This week saw the publication of “The representation and processing of distributivity and collectivity: ambiguity vs. underspecification” in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics by Dotlačil, Jakub (Utrecht University), and Adrian Brasoveanu. Congratulations, Adrian!

A large group of our linguists presented their work at LSA 2021! A bevy of our faculty, alumni, and students shared their work. Details about their presentations are given below.

Donka Farkas gave a wonderful plenary talk on Canonical and Non-Canonical Speech Acts.

There was a special Syntax-Prosody in OT event led by the SPOT group (Jenny Bellik, Nick Kalivoda, Nick Van Handel, Richard Bibbs, Junko Ito, and Armin Mester).

Tom Roberts & Kelsey Sasaki:  Which predicates embed exclamatives and why?

Max Kaplan: On-line processing of completion in event descriptions with a visual world paradigm

Dan Brodkin & Vishal Sunil Arvindam: Adjacency Requirements in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec

Tom Roberts:  Argument saturation and intransitive modification: The double life of embedded clauses

Ryan Bennett &  Robert Henderson(alumnus): Vowel deletion as gestural overlap in Uspanteko

Mark Norris (alumnus): Concord begets concord: A Bayesian model of nominal concord typology

You can find a blurb about the SPOT session and links to materials from it here.

Congratulations to all who presented!

LaLoCo had their second meeting at 8:45-10:00 am, on Monday, 1/18, at this Zoom link. Morwenna Hoeks led the discussion of Chapter 3 of  Rao, D., & McMahan, B. (2019). Natural language processing with PyTorch: build intelligent language applications using deep learning.

S/lab had their second meeting at 8:00 am on Tuesday, 1/19, at this Zoom link. Jack Duff presented his work on the processing of homonymy and polysemy in the Maze. A tentative schedule can be found here.